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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
ANGELOVA, Milena (South-West University, Blagoevgrad)
chappymil@yahoo.com
BOCK, Gisela (Freie Universität Berlin)
secrebo@zedat.fu-berlin.de
BUCUR-DECKARD, Maria (Indiana University)
mbucur@indiana.edu
FERDINAND, Ursula (Technical University Berlin)
ferd0759@mailbox.tu-berlin.de
FUCHS, Brigitte (University of Vienna)
brigitte.fuchs@chello.at
GARDIKAS, Katerina (University of Athens)
kgardika@arch.uoa.gr
GEORGESCU, Tudor (Oxford Brookes University)
t_georgescu@hotmail.com
KARAKATSANI, Despina (University of Peloponnese )
despikar@otenet.gr
MIRCHEVA, Gergana (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)
gerganamircheva@yahoo.co.uk
PAPASTEFANAKI, Leda (University of Ioannina)
papastefanaki@ath.forthnet.gr
POPOVA, Kristina (South-West University Blagoevgrad)
chadoblg@yahoo.com
PROMITZER, Christian (University of Graz)
christian.promitzer@uni-graz.at
SCHLEIERMACHER, Sabine (Charité,Berlin)
sabine.schleiermacher@charite.de
SHVARTS, Shifra (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
shvarts@bgu.ac.il
SUNDHAUSSEN, Holm (Freie Universität Berlin)
sundhaus@gmx.net
THEODOROU, Vaso (University of Thrace/Greece)
kitgia@otenet.gr
TRUBETA, Sevasti (Freie Universität Berlin)
sev.trubeta@freenet.de
TURDA, Marius (Oxford Brookes University)
mturda@brookes.ac.uk
WEDEKIND, Michael (University of Muenster)
wedekind@uni-muenster.de
WEINDLING, Paul (Oxford Brookes University)
pjweindling@brookes.ac.uk
YEOMANS Rory (Independent Scholar, London)
Rory.Yeomans4@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
HYGIENE - HEALTH POLITICS - EUGENICS: ENGINEERING SOCIETY
IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE
31 May - 2 June 2007
Supported by
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Venue
Clubhaus, Freie Universität Berlin, Goethestr. 49, D-14163 Berlin
Conveners
Dr. Sevasti Τrubeta, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University
Dr. Christian Promitzer, University of Graz
Information
Dr. Sevasti Trubeta Tel.: +49-30-838 52761
sev.trubeta@freenet.de +49-30-42 22 89 0

THURSDAY, 31 MAY
9.30 -10.00
Opening Remarks and Greetings by the organisers
Sybill DE VITO-EGERLAND
International Affairs, FU Berlin
PROGRAMME
Holm SUNDHAUSSEN
Chair for Southeast European History, Department History and Culture, FU Berlin
10.00 – 10.30
Key Note Speech by Paul WEINDLING, Oxford Brookes University
Regenerating Mitteleuropa: Methodological and Theoretical Reflections on Eugenics, Hygiene and
Health Politics in Central and Southeast Europe
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion
Chair: Marius TURDA, Oxford Brookes University
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
Morning Session “Epidemics and Diseases”
Chair: Michael WEDEKIND, University Muenster
11.30 – 11.50
Epidemics and Muslims: Typhus and Delousing Campaigns in Bulgaria
Christian PROMITZER (University of Graz)
11.50 – 12.10
Combating social diseases in Bulgaria 1912 – 1944
Milena ANGELOVA Southwest University Blagoevgrad
12.10 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session “Health Politics and Eugenics”
Chair: Sabine SCHLEIERMACHER, Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History of Medicine,
Charité/Berlin
14.30 – 14.50
The nation and the idea of malaria sanitisation in early 20th century Greece
Katerina GARDIKAS, University of Athens
14.50 – 15.10
The “Health” Regime of the National Organism and the Eugenics Discourse in Bulgaria, 1900-1944
Gergana MIRCHEVA, University of Sofia
15.10 – 15.30
Politics, modernization and public health in Greece (1900 -1940): the case of occupational health
Leda PAPASTEFANAKI, University of Ioannina
15.30 – 16.15 Discussion
FRIDAY, 1 JUNE
Free Evening
Morning Session “Eugenics and the State”
Chair: Gisela BOCK, Freie Universität Berlin
9.30 - 9.50
Eugenic Sterilisation in Romania, 1914-1937
Marius TURDA, Oxford Brookes University
9.50 – 10.10
Prenuptial Health Certificates in Greece in the first half of the 20th century
Sevasti TRUBETA, Freie Universität Berlin
10.10 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
Morning Session “Eugenics, Art and Gender”
Chair: Maria BUCUR, Indiana University Bloomington
11.30 – 11.50
From the New Yugoslav Man to the “Old” Belgrade Man: Eugenics, Culture and the Paradox of
Modernity in Inter-War Yugoslavia
Rory YEOMANS, Independent Scholar, London
11.50 – 12.10
Gender, Religion, and Hygiene in Bosnia-Hercegovina 1878-1918
Brigitte FUCHS (University of Vienna)
12.10 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session “The Biological Capital of the Nation”
Chair: Ursula FERDINAND, Technical University Berlin
14.30 – 14.50
Public health and Child Mortality in Bulgaria in the 1920s and 1930s
Kristina POPOVA, South-West University Blagoevgrad
14.50 – 15.10
Eugenics and puericulture in Greece in interwar years: medical concerns about the amelioration of the
biological capital
Despina KARAKATSANI, University of Peloponnese/ Vaso THEODOROU, University of Thrace
15.10 – 15.45 Discussion
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Evening Session: “Anthropology and minorities”
Chair: Katerina GARDIKAS, University of Athens
16.15 – 16.35
The Mathematization of the Human Being: Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Romania in the late 1930s
and early 1940s
Michael WEDEKIND, University of Muenster
16.35 – 16.55
Alfred Csallner and Saxon Dysgenic Crises in Interwar Transylvania
Tudor GEORGESCU, Oxford Brookes University
16.55 – 17.30 Discussion
8 p.m. Dinner: Restaurant “Ypsilon”, Hauptstr. 163, 10828 Berlin, U-Bahn Kleistpark
SATURDAY, 2 JUNE
Morning Session: “Colonialism, Eugenics and Hygiene”
Chair: Paul WEINDLING, Oxford Brookes University
9.30 -9.50
Questions About Eugenics and Colonialism in East Europe
Maria BUCUR, Indiana University
9.50 – 10.10
Hygienic ideas between Odessa and Vienna - Who will shape the image of the New Jew in Palestine
during the British Mandate period (1918-1948)?
Shifra SHVARTS, Ben Gurion University, Israel
10.10 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00 Conclusions by the organisers
12.00 – 13.00 Final Discussion
END OF CONFERENCE
15.00 Meeting of the “Working Group on the History of Racial Sciences and Biomedicine in Central and
Southeast Europe (XIX and XXc.)’ Venue: Hotel Haus Leopold, Fischerhüttenstr. 113, D-14163 Berlin